White taxis are launching their own ride-hailing app

White-taxi drivers are launching their own ride-hailing app, developed by an Egyptian company, in October, Taxi Drivers’ Union head Mahmoud Abdelhamid tells the local press. White-taxi drivers were supposedly launching this very same app back in 2016 at the height of their complaints over the growth of ride-hailing apps Uber and Careem. The Ride-Hailing Apps Act, which was passed in 2018, required ride-hailing companies to incorporate white taxis into their fleets.